System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

Other Files Used for Mail Services

Several other files and directories are used for mail services, as shown in Table 26-11.

Table 26-11 Other Files Used for Mail Services

Name 

Type 

Description 

sendmailvars.org_dir

Table 

NIS+ version of sendmailvars file.

/etc/default/sendmail

File 

Lists the environment variables for the startup script for sendmail.

/etc/shells

File 

Lists the valid login shells. 

/usr/sbin/editmap

File 

Queries and edits single records in database maps for sendmail.

/usr/sbin/in.comsat

File 

Mail notification daemon. 

/usr/sbin/makemap

File 

Builds binary forms of keyed maps. 

/usr/sbin/newaliases

Link 

A link to /usr/lib/sendmail. Used to create the binary form of the alias database. Previously in /usr/bin.

/usr/sbin/syslogd

File 

Error message logger, used by sendmail.

/usr/sbin/etrn

File 

Perl script for starting the client-side remote mail queue. 

/usr/dt/bin/dtmail

File 

CDE mail user agent. 

/var/mail/mailbox1, /var/mail/mailbox2

File 

Mailboxes for delivered mail. 

/var/spool/clientmqueue

Directory 

Storage for mail that is delivered by the client daemon. 

/var/spool/mqueue

Directory 

Storage for mail that is delivered by the master daemon. 

$OPENWINHOME/bin/mailtool

File 

Window-based mail user agent. 

/var/run/sendmail.pid

File 

File that lists the PID of the listening daemon.